Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DETROIT, April 15 (UPI) -- A former live-in girlfriend of a patient of
Jack Kevorkian says one of Kevorkian's associates sexually assaulted her
5-year-old daughter.
Neal Nicol, 58, of Waterford Township surrendered to police
Tuesday
and was arraigned on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
The child's mother is the former girlfriend of Thomas Hyde, 30,
of
Novi, Mich., whose body was found Aug. 4, 1993, in Kevorkian's van on
Belle Isle in Detroit.
Hyde, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, is the father of
the
child. He was the 17th person to die with Kevorkian's help. Waterford
police released few details of the sexual assault case. The mother and
the girl lived with Nicol this year.
She could not be reached for comment.
Nicol was released on $5,000 bond pending a May 14 court
hearing.
Nicol's attorney Michael Odette describes the complaint as
``unfounded and weird.'' Nicol first helped Kevorkian in the 1960s with
early blood transfusion experiments at Pontiac General Hospital.
The Walled Lake woman met Nicol in August 1993, about the time
of
Hyde's death, Odette said, adding the pair ``didn't date for a year or
two.''
The woman and her daughter moved in with Nicol in August 1997,
``but
it didn't last,'' Odette said. In December, Nicol asked the woman to
move out.
In December, Nicol called social workers saying the girl was
being
abused by her mother.
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